Musical chairs in Kinshasa: Who will join the government?

When the music stops at some point in the coming weeks, we should know… Read More

Thoughts on the Kony2012 saga

I resisted, now I have to succumb to the temptation of joining the fracas… Read More

Below is a guest post by Ida Sawyer, an Africa researcher and advocate at… Read More

The original version of this article was published on the website African… Read More

The Rift Valley Institute’s Great Lakes Course Saturday 22 – Friday 28 June The… Read More

Last December, while the diplomatic community was up in arms over the electoral fiasco… Read More

Update: See here for an article written by historian David Newbury in 1997,… Read More

Augustin Katumba Mwanke, one of the most important political leaders in the Congo, died… Read More

This is the second installment of an interview with the UN Group of Experts. Read More

The following is the first of two interviews with the United Nations Group of… Read More

On Thursday, the election commission released a list of 484 out of 500 parliamentarians… Read More

I did a quick back-of-the-envelope analysis to figure out how many seats Kabila’s presidential… Read More

Congolese politics, usually full of fire and scandal, seem devoid of hope these days. Read More

With over half of the seats in the legislative elections decided, Kabila’s fractious coalition… Read More

While electoral wrangling continues, there has been an escalation of fighting in the eastern… Read More